I came here expecting another familiar debate about equalization, pipelines, or Ottawa’s latest sin. Instead, you made me put down my phone and just sit with what you wrote.
You are right. We have been fighting yesterday’s battle. Left vs. right. Alberta vs. Ottawa. Past vs. past. And while we argue, the ground beneath us is being prepared for something none of us voted on.
What makes your piece so valuable is not that you oppose independence. You don’t. You share the frustration. You’re “pure Alberta Beef,” born here seven decades ago. That gives you credibility to ask the harder question:
What if the same political class that sold us the first lie is now selling us the second?
That line stopped me cold. Because it’s not rhetorical. It’s a genuine risk.
You are absolutely right to draw attention to AI data centres not as a tech story, but as a power story. Traditional data centres store information. AI data centres act on it—analyze, predict, automate, decide. That is a different order of magnitude entirely.
And your central warning is one that every Albertan who cares about freedom should hear:
What good is political independence if every transaction is tracked? What good is sovereignty if every movement is monitored?
That is not fearmongering. That is foresight.
I especially appreciated that you did not simply say “China bad” or “technology evil.” You made a more subtle and honest argument: the technology exists, the capability is real, and history teaches us that governments rarely refuse powers that become available to them. That is not paranoia. That is prudence.
Your call to action is refreshingly concrete:
· Stop looking only at Ottawa.
· Look at what is being built right now in Alberta.
· Ask who is approving, subsidizing, and profiting from AI infrastructure.
· Ask whether “smart infrastructure” serves us or manages us.
That shifts the independence debate from a nostalgic fight about Confederation to a genuinely future-oriented question: What kind of Alberta do we want to live in—whether inside Canada or outside it?
If I could offer one small friendly addition: It might help to include specific Alberta-based AI data centre proposals (locations, companies, government incentives) so readers can verify and act locally. But even without that, your essay succeeds as a philosophical fire alarm.
Many of us feel this way and have stopped listening, watching or tapping on all of this crap. Daniel sold Alberta to data centres for an MOU which will amount to nada, zero, zilch in years to come. It's a grift!!
In this world today the handlers use HOPEIUM to keep people divided stupid and blinded while going about the business of rolling in the hungar games. It is time to quit looking for any elite help. its not there and never will be. MAY THE ODDS BE FOREVER IN YOUR FAVOUR and buckle up.
As much as I hate to say what you just laid out is true, very true. I listened to Tucker Carlsons podcast with Kevin OLeary the same snake building one here and everyone should listen to it. We dont have the leader helping us go sovereign , we have an imposter making sure we dont
‘They’ are very good at manipulating our trusting Canadian nature … AND … as you said … this is happening globally … so I will tweak what I just said to be more ‘inclusive’ … ‘they’ are very, very, very good at manipulating our beautiful, trusting, caring human nature.
Yes, I concur … ‘they’ have been doing this to us … behind the scenes … pretty much unfettered … for a very long time.
Now though … WE SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING… and they are busted … we now know that control - not good jobs and good lives - is their agenda.
As the children’s book said, “The emperor has no clothes on.”
We now have an authentic choice to make … are we going to continue dancing to their tune …believing their lies … and complying with the fairy tales ‘they’ intentionally weave to entrap/enslave us … or are we going to … ?
Thanks for shining a bright light on what has been/is happening in the shadows behind closed doors … my guess … ‘they’ are laughing at us.
‘They’ see our authentic human kindness, integrity and trustworthiness as weakness … rather than as the powerful strength that it is.
My thought … UNDERESTIMATING US HUMAN BEINGS IS A BIG, BIG MISTAKE ON THEIR PART.
I think TPTB are using an old card trick I learned as a kid. As long as the dealer knows ONE card and WHERE it is, he can let you choose any grouping of cards your little heart desires, and he'll always have the answer because he LET you make CONTROLLED choices.
A well designed psyop has many components, certainly not binary.
Connie described herself as Albertan beef. Methinks this self characterization
inaccurate. Howz about Albertan Lilly? Lillies are commonly white symbolizing purity
but also are used in sacred ceremony. A sovereign is not granted the "right" to the title, that person has a birth right. Many compliant and complacent peeps behave as if they are chattel.
Canadians are prime examples in strong competition with Australians and Brits.
Data centers, once defeated by sovereigns, can easily be repurposed.
Sovereigns need little to declare their birthright. Sounding alarms for egregious breaches
like "shots" for fictitious "virus" primed the pump for the surveilance state.
The line in the sand has been breached. The aware know what to do.
Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of our constitutional history would know that the Tim Stein “Canada: The Illusion” is the rant of a self appointed Google lawyer. It cannot be taken seriously.
Our constitution is not about one document. It is about over a millennium of tradition, largely unwritten, but inherited from England.
Mr. Grey, I appreciate your comment and your willingness to engage.
You may very well be correct that Timm Stein's interpretation of constitutional history is flawed. I am not a constitutional lawyer, and I have no issue with experts debating the merits of his arguments.
What I found interesting, however, is that my article was not really about Timm Stein.
In fact, I specifically wrote:
"Whether you agree with every conclusion or not, one thing became painfully clear to me..."
The point of the article was not to convince readers that Timm Stein is right. The point was to ask whether Albertans have been encouraged to spend decades looking backward ... debating Confederation, Ottawa, equalization, transfer payments, and now separation, while major technological, economic, and governance changes are occurring right now.
Even if Timm Stein is completely wrong, the question remains. Are we focusing our energy on the right battle?
While we debate constitutional history, AI data centres are being proposed across Alberta. Massive new power infrastructure is being planned. Autonomous systems, robotics, surveillance technologies, and data-driven governance systems continue to expand.
My concern is not what happened in 1867 or 1931. My concern is what is happening in 2026.
If the constitutional debate has value, it is because it caused me to ask whether Albertans are being encouraged to look behind us while something entirely different is being built in front of us. That was the real point of the article.
I encourage you to stay tuned, as I may be about to throw another curve ball. First I questioned whether separation is distracting us from AI data centres. Now I'm beginning to wonder whether the AI data centre gold rush itself is distracting us from something even bigger already woven into our communities....Coming Soon
technocracy has been around since the 30's. elon musk's grandfather was the head of the movement in canada. nazi prisoner number tattoos... ibm bayer--technocracy is fascism on steroids.
Are we witnessing a modern version of it today, where more decisions are being delegated to data, algorithms, AI systems, and technical experts rather than ordinary citizens.
it certainly has evolved and according to patrick woods at technocracy news ai is doubling its computing power faster and faster. just a thought on something i read back in the 60's -- the colour television was invented in 1924. functioning model july 3 1928 by a guy named baird. the stuff we don't know could fill a smithsonian institute eh.
Emanuel, I agree that AI itself is not going away. My concern isn't AI. My concern is governance. Nuclear technology wasn't stopped either. We still debate who controls it, how it's used, and what safeguards are needed. The question isn't whether AI exists. The question is whether citizens get a say in how it is deployed and whether every proposed AI project automatically serves the public interest simply because someone else is building one.
governance is always an issue, everywhere and for all time, and Power will seek to enhance its control. It's an uphill battle, which is why the American model is so important in wresting control from Britain way back when, and as I see it, attempting to free itself from their financial and totalitarian stranglehold. Do we as citizens have control over how our space-age fighter jets are deployed? Not really.
A necessary wake-up call
Thank you for this. Truly.
I came here expecting another familiar debate about equalization, pipelines, or Ottawa’s latest sin. Instead, you made me put down my phone and just sit with what you wrote.
You are right. We have been fighting yesterday’s battle. Left vs. right. Alberta vs. Ottawa. Past vs. past. And while we argue, the ground beneath us is being prepared for something none of us voted on.
What makes your piece so valuable is not that you oppose independence. You don’t. You share the frustration. You’re “pure Alberta Beef,” born here seven decades ago. That gives you credibility to ask the harder question:
What if the same political class that sold us the first lie is now selling us the second?
That line stopped me cold. Because it’s not rhetorical. It’s a genuine risk.
You are absolutely right to draw attention to AI data centres not as a tech story, but as a power story. Traditional data centres store information. AI data centres act on it—analyze, predict, automate, decide. That is a different order of magnitude entirely.
And your central warning is one that every Albertan who cares about freedom should hear:
What good is political independence if every transaction is tracked? What good is sovereignty if every movement is monitored?
That is not fearmongering. That is foresight.
I especially appreciated that you did not simply say “China bad” or “technology evil.” You made a more subtle and honest argument: the technology exists, the capability is real, and history teaches us that governments rarely refuse powers that become available to them. That is not paranoia. That is prudence.
Your call to action is refreshingly concrete:
· Stop looking only at Ottawa.
· Look at what is being built right now in Alberta.
· Ask who is approving, subsidizing, and profiting from AI infrastructure.
· Ask whether “smart infrastructure” serves us or manages us.
That shifts the independence debate from a nostalgic fight about Confederation to a genuinely future-oriented question: What kind of Alberta do we want to live in—whether inside Canada or outside it?
If I could offer one small friendly addition: It might help to include specific Alberta-based AI data centre proposals (locations, companies, government incentives) so readers can verify and act locally. But even without that, your essay succeeds as a philosophical fire alarm.
Thank you for having the courage to look down.
I will be sharing this widely.
Many of us feel this way and have stopped listening, watching or tapping on all of this crap. Daniel sold Alberta to data centres for an MOU which will amount to nada, zero, zilch in years to come. It's a grift!!
In this world today the handlers use HOPEIUM to keep people divided stupid and blinded while going about the business of rolling in the hungar games. It is time to quit looking for any elite help. its not there and never will be. MAY THE ODDS BE FOREVER IN YOUR FAVOUR and buckle up.
As much as I hate to say what you just laid out is true, very true. I listened to Tucker Carlsons podcast with Kevin OLeary the same snake building one here and everyone should listen to it. We dont have the leader helping us go sovereign , we have an imposter making sure we dont
Well and clearly said.
‘They’ are very good at manipulating our trusting Canadian nature … AND … as you said … this is happening globally … so I will tweak what I just said to be more ‘inclusive’ … ‘they’ are very, very, very good at manipulating our beautiful, trusting, caring human nature.
Yes, I concur … ‘they’ have been doing this to us … behind the scenes … pretty much unfettered … for a very long time.
Now though … WE SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING… and they are busted … we now know that control - not good jobs and good lives - is their agenda.
As the children’s book said, “The emperor has no clothes on.”
We now have an authentic choice to make … are we going to continue dancing to their tune …believing their lies … and complying with the fairy tales ‘they’ intentionally weave to entrap/enslave us … or are we going to … ?
Thanks for shining a bright light on what has been/is happening in the shadows behind closed doors … my guess … ‘they’ are laughing at us.
‘They’ see our authentic human kindness, integrity and trustworthiness as weakness … rather than as the powerful strength that it is.
My thought … UNDERESTIMATING US HUMAN BEINGS IS A BIG, BIG MISTAKE ON THEIR PART.
Another great piece Connie. Thank you.
I think TPTB are using an old card trick I learned as a kid. As long as the dealer knows ONE card and WHERE it is, he can let you choose any grouping of cards your little heart desires, and he'll always have the answer because he LET you make CONTROLLED choices.
Full disc. I fled Onterrible back in the convid days....
Not an og Albertan but that fact does not deny my penchant for TRUE FREEDOM from government tyranny.
Gover/ment Etymology means Mind Control - literally.
Create one psyop so we corral ourselves into the actual pem they want to surveillance us in.
With blockchain technology, we can actually achieve alleged Freedom but the overlords of this Realm will jot allow it.... 🙏🙏🙏 still, I am STILL HERE.
I agree.
A well designed psyop has many components, certainly not binary.
Connie described herself as Albertan beef. Methinks this self characterization
inaccurate. Howz about Albertan Lilly? Lillies are commonly white symbolizing purity
but also are used in sacred ceremony. A sovereign is not granted the "right" to the title, that person has a birth right. Many compliant and complacent peeps behave as if they are chattel.
Canadians are prime examples in strong competition with Australians and Brits.
Data centers, once defeated by sovereigns, can easily be repurposed.
Sovereigns need little to declare their birthright. Sounding alarms for egregious breaches
like "shots" for fictitious "virus" primed the pump for the surveilance state.
The line in the sand has been breached. The aware know what to do.
Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of our constitutional history would know that the Tim Stein “Canada: The Illusion” is the rant of a self appointed Google lawyer. It cannot be taken seriously.
Our constitution is not about one document. It is about over a millennium of tradition, largely unwritten, but inherited from England.
Mr. Grey, I appreciate your comment and your willingness to engage.
You may very well be correct that Timm Stein's interpretation of constitutional history is flawed. I am not a constitutional lawyer, and I have no issue with experts debating the merits of his arguments.
What I found interesting, however, is that my article was not really about Timm Stein.
In fact, I specifically wrote:
"Whether you agree with every conclusion or not, one thing became painfully clear to me..."
The point of the article was not to convince readers that Timm Stein is right. The point was to ask whether Albertans have been encouraged to spend decades looking backward ... debating Confederation, Ottawa, equalization, transfer payments, and now separation, while major technological, economic, and governance changes are occurring right now.
Even if Timm Stein is completely wrong, the question remains. Are we focusing our energy on the right battle?
While we debate constitutional history, AI data centres are being proposed across Alberta. Massive new power infrastructure is being planned. Autonomous systems, robotics, surveillance technologies, and data-driven governance systems continue to expand.
My concern is not what happened in 1867 or 1931. My concern is what is happening in 2026.
If the constitutional debate has value, it is because it caused me to ask whether Albertans are being encouraged to look behind us while something entirely different is being built in front of us. That was the real point of the article.
I encourage you to stay tuned, as I may be about to throw another curve ball. First I questioned whether separation is distracting us from AI data centres. Now I'm beginning to wonder whether the AI data centre gold rush itself is distracting us from something even bigger already woven into our communities....Coming Soon
technocracy has been around since the 30's. elon musk's grandfather was the head of the movement in canada. nazi prisoner number tattoos... ibm bayer--technocracy is fascism on steroids.
Are we witnessing a modern version of it today, where more decisions are being delegated to data, algorithms, AI systems, and technical experts rather than ordinary citizens.
it certainly has evolved and according to patrick woods at technocracy news ai is doubling its computing power faster and faster. just a thought on something i read back in the 60's -- the colour television was invented in 1924. functioning model july 3 1928 by a guy named baird. the stuff we don't know could fill a smithsonian institute eh.
There's no stopping AI. We are in the midst of a hyper-industrial revolution and the nation that doesn't pick up the new tool will be toast.
Emanuel, I agree that AI itself is not going away. My concern isn't AI. My concern is governance. Nuclear technology wasn't stopped either. We still debate who controls it, how it's used, and what safeguards are needed. The question isn't whether AI exists. The question is whether citizens get a say in how it is deployed and whether every proposed AI project automatically serves the public interest simply because someone else is building one.
governance is always an issue, everywhere and for all time, and Power will seek to enhance its control. It's an uphill battle, which is why the American model is so important in wresting control from Britain way back when, and as I see it, attempting to free itself from their financial and totalitarian stranglehold. Do we as citizens have control over how our space-age fighter jets are deployed? Not really.